In a Station of the Metro

[grllopez]

Thank goodness there is a title.

Apparently, this takes place in a metro station, or subway, where I come from. The poet first tells us of an "apparition of these faces in a crowd:" and then his second line is, "Petals on a wet, black bough." That's it.

An apparition is a ghost-like vision of a person. Are the people that he supposedly sees in the metro station going to and from work and home, and wear that typical blank stare that they appear ghost like? Is it something he is imagining as they move swiftly through the station? Whatever it is, he thinks the vision reminds him of petals on a wet, black tree branch. OK. Is that like, after a storm? Are the petals disheveled? Do the faces seem the same? Why are the petals on a wet branch? I cannot imagine.

Ezra, as his friend William Carlos Williams, was an imaginist. And he liked to be very, very simple and plain with his words, which is great for me, but I think this is too plain for me. I need more clues than two lines minus verbs.

Anyone else? LOL!

[Jeanne]

I’m with you. I think a little more might be nice. 😁

[grllopez]

Jeanne wrote: "I’m with you. I think a little more might be nice. 😁"
Oh, good. Poetry is hard for me especially if I do not take the time to dwell on it; but this was really impossible for me.